CRPP Drags Edo APC Chairman Jarret Tenebe to IGP Over Alleged Guerrilla Move of Wearing Official INEC Vest During Polls

The inter-party landscape of Edo State has dissolved into intense, post-electoral friction after the Conference of Registered Political Parties (CRPP) engaged in a fierce public battle with the state leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over allegations that the ruling party’s chairman hijacked official electoral uniforms to compromise voting integrity.

The high-visibility political confrontation unzipped following a heavily worded administrative brief released in Benin City by the CRPP State Chairman, Dr. Samson Isibor. The sweeping multi-party attack lands on the 2026 subnational calendar at a highly sensitive time, arriving precisely as opposition frameworks regroup to challenge the ruling party’s territorial layout across regional legislative seats following the Supreme Court’s final validation of Governor Monday Okpebholo’s executive mandate.

According to the specific data fields detailed within the CRPP’s formal petition, the coalition alleges that APC State Chairman, Emperor Jarret Tenebe, was visually captured and tracked violating statutory boundary codes by physically donning a branded INEC official operational vest.

The rights group maintained that by wearing the restricted apparel, the party boss successfully built an artificial administrative shield, granting him unhindered entry into highly sensitive tabulation rooms and local government collation centers where non-partisan neutrality is strictly mandated by law.

Dr. Samson Isibor insisted that the display represents a dangerous precedent that threatens to completely dismantle public trust in the subnational democratic manual.

“We have officially documented this grave infraction and dispatched our files directly to the Inspector General of Police and the INEC national headquarters in Abuja,” Dr. Samson Isibor declared with absolute candor during his media briefing. “For a highly partisan state chairman of a ruling party to comfortably stroll through polling units and collation hubs wearing an official INEC vest is a blatant execution of an impersonation script. It was a calculated, guerrilla move designed to intimidate opposition polling agents, manipulate vulnerable returning officers, and give a false impression of official institutional backing. We demand his immediate arrest and a thorough judicial clearing because no individual—no matter how powerful their political machinery—is permitted to execute a mockery layout of our electoral laws.”

The heavy allegations have instantly triggered an aggressive, defensive pushback from the ruling party’s media command.

Bypassing polite diplomatic scripts, the Edo APC publicity apparatus flatly rubbished the CRPP’s tracking logs, characterizing the entire petition layout as a fraudulent piece of fiction orchestrated by a “pocket-sized, commercially driven association” looking for cheap online engagements.

Taking to his digital networks to clear the air, Emperor Jarret Tenebe vehemently denied ever stepping outside the strict limits of his legal operational accreditation. Tenebe maintained that as the undisputed leader of the party that successfully anchored Governor Okpebholo’s grassroots revolution across Edo South, North, and Central, his presence at monitoring centers was fully protected under his certified status as a master party agent.

He added that the APC does not require a cosmetic wardrobe maneuver to secure victory, asserting that the party’s historic field dominance relies entirely on deep structural mobilization and robust delivery.

As federal security provosts and police intelligence units initialize baseline tracking to determine the authenticity of the visual evidence sheets submitted by the opposition, political analysts note that the vest controversy highlights the volatile state of trust defining the region’s political loop.